PandemicSoul Quotelog

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

“The Silver Poppy”