As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.