“My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.”
“Remember, women are not to be the caboose, and they are not the engine. They are much, much more than either of these.”
“Keeping an open mind is a virtue—but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out.”
“More Latin?” I was going to need a fucking guidebook to keep track of a language I thought was as dead as my mother.”
“Keep your thoughts and your mind always going forward ahead on the roads of life, just as you would do driving your car.”
“To my mind, modern life just offers too many numbers that we're supposed to keep track of.”