It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.