“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
“Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination.”
“Who is that?”“Your replacement.”“You replaced me with a shaved poodle?”“He's got mad skills.”
“Fame has replaced the sea as the element of choice for adventure.”
“a certain amount of boredom is...essential to a happy life”
“After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80]”