A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Heaven's my destination.