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We kept nearly bumping into each other, unavoidably. I wished we could stop avoiding each other long enough to agree to avoid each other properly.

Bujak spoke of Einstein as if he were God's literary critic, God being a poet. I, more stolidly, tend to suspect that God is a novelist — a garrulous and deeply unwholesome one too.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Methods Used

1. Marxist: You decide you're the vanguard of the proletariat and then you can do whatever you want because history will back you up.

2. Stoic: Stay very calm.

3. Positivist: Yes, I'm positive I want to rob this bank.

In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

But there's no indemnity. You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.