Read at whim! Read at whim!

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

We can't tell our life from our wish

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.