Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.