A detached attitude toward the problems of others is not illegal. - Jack Vance

They meant no harm, of course; they wanted only that he be like themselves, which was the prerogative of all parents.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

Urbanized men and women experience not life but the abstraction of life, on ever higher levels of refinement and dislocation from reality. They become processors of ideas, and have evolved such esoteric occupations as the critic, the critic who criticizes criticism, and even the critic who criticizes criticism of criticism. It is a very sad misuse of human talent and energy.