To Write Simply Is As Difficult As

Self-control Might Be As Passionate And As Active As The Surrender To Passion.

It Is Unsafe To Take Your Reader For More Of A Fool Than He Is.

Dying Is The Most Hellishly Boresome Experience In The World! Particularly When It Entails Dying Of 'natural Causes'.

It Is An Illusion That Youth Is Happy, An Illusion Of Those Who Have Lost It.

To Acquire The Habit Of Reading Is To Construct For Yourself A Refuge From Almost All The Miseries Of Life.