Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.