“As between mileage and experience choose experience.” — Clifton Fadiman

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.