We all know how to be a child. It's inside all of us. For me, it's just remembering how to enjoy it.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.
The assailant is often in the right; the assailed is always.
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.
We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.