If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.