The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.