“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Hard writing makes easy reading.”

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”

“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

“I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into an...”