A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
No.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.