I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

I am completely half afraid to think.

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.

He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

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