He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
“I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there.”
“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”