At the pit's bottom is no anger.

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.