Barbara

“If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.”
― Clive James

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“It seemed such a brief while ago that they were all laughing at Professor Nikolayev's definition of a musicologist. Imagine we are eating scrambled eggs, the Professor used to say. My cook, Pasha, has prepared them, and you and I are eating them. Along comes a man who has not prepared them and is not eating them, but he talks about them as if he knows everything about them - that is a musicologist.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“He’s sick.” “What with?” “Sitzenlust. Chronic. The opposite of wanderlust.”
― Rex Stout, The Silent Speaker