I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

How did I picture the life after the grave? I fairly bawled out at him: "A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

In the long run one gets used to anything.

There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

There is no problem that cannot be solved.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don't like.