Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?

however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.