On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.