The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.

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

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

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.

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.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?