One plus one equals both.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.

Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.