What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
Logan Pearsall SmithWhen we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.
Logan Pearsall SmithIt is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
Logan Pearsall Smith