I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.
After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.
The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.