Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.