Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.