Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....