You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.