The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention.

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.