Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.