In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.