it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.
things never seem as bad as they are.
... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.