Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.