In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.