The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.