Awash with unfocused desire, Everett twisted the lobe of his one remaining ear and felt the presence of somebody else behind him, which caused terror to push through his nervous system like a flash flood roaring down the mid-fork of the Feather River

The future is a race between education and catastrophe.

If we see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train.

If I had any humility I would be perfect.

To know Edina is to reject it.

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Too much is just enough.

God help those who do not help themselves.

Nothing succeeds like success.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

I've got a very bad feeling about this.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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The streets were dark with something more than night.