If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
