A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made….

Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine….

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell..

I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and tried to get some impress….

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally ….

I feel bad that I don't feel worse..

And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of bird….

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself..

One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog". The moto….

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now..

And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, wh….

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to ….

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts ar….

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valuel….

For hundreds of pages the closely-reasoned arguments unroll, axioms and theorems interlock. And what remains with us in the end? A general sense that….

No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes..

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else..

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck..

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed..