Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.
Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
Necessity makes heroes of us all.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.
The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.
Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
True wit has a grave intention.
In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.
Wit: a whim followed by a wham.
City wits, country humorists.
If folly disappeared, wit would starve.
Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.
Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.
God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.
I resist change even as I call for it.
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
The young are amazed when they suffer.
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.
Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
Attacking a belief can be the first step toward embracing it.
Belief forages, moving from pasture to pasture.
