A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.