PandemicSoul Quotelog

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”

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ‘safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.