For Every Fact There Is An Infinity

A Culture-bearing Book, Like A Mule, Bears The Culture On Its Back. No One Should Sit Down To Write One Deliberately. Culture-bearing Books Appear Almost Accidentally, Like A Sudden Surge In The Stock Market. There Are Books Of High Quality That Are A Part Of The Culture, But That Is Not The Same. They Are A Part Of It. They Aren't Carrying It Anywhere. They May Talk About Insanity Sympathetically, For Example, Because That's The Standard Cultural Attitude. But They Don't Carry Any Suggestion That Insanity Might Be Something Other Than Sickness Or Degeneracy.

From An Endless Beach Of Reality, We Take A Grain Of Sand And Call It The World.

A Motorcycle Functions Entirely In Accordance With The Laws Of Reason, And A Study Of The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance Is Really A Miniature Study Of The Art Of Rationality Itself.

It's So Hard When Contemplated In Advance, And So Easy When You Do It.

In A Car You're Always In A Compartment, And Because You're Used To It You Don't Realize That Through That Car Window Everything You See Is Just More Tv. You're A Passive Observer And It Is All Moving By You Boringly In A Frame. On A Cycle The Frame Is Gone. You're Completely In Contact With It All. You're In The Scene, Not Just Watching It Anymore, And The Sense Of Presence Is Overwhelming.