Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.