Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.