Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

Saints can spring from any soil.

I know people who are so immersed in road maps that they never see the countryside they pass through, and others who, having traced a route, are held to it as though held by flanged wheels to rails.