To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

Sanity is a matter of culture and convention. If it's a crazy culture you live in, then you have to be irrational to want to conform. A completely rational person would recognize that the culture was crazy and refuse to conform. But by not conforming, he is the one who would be judged crazy by that particular society.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

You have what is known as a lot of character, meaning you can be wrong at the top of your lungs.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.