"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame."

"I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar."

"We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it."

"GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction."

"Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."