I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.