the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

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

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

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

Civilization has imposed countless restrictions and conventions on each of us, with the result that the subconscious in the majority of us has become a storage room without a key. We are forced to suppress or forget so many events and ideas and thoughts that those to which we should have access are lost in the welter. However, there are people who seem capable of unlocking this part of their minds and extracting relevant information.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.