The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James ThurberI loathe the expression โWhat makes him tick.โ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
James Thurber