I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.