“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse”

“I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.”

“She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.”

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”

“ first reaction to the indescribable, stupid, and undignified procedure required for procreation had been disappointment...”

“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.”