What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.