“Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.”

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”

“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess. ”

“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”

“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.”

“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”

“I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. ”