We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
I confess, I do not believe in time.
You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."