Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. - Arthur Conan Doyle

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

It was a net from which it seemed to me, a few hours ago, that there was no possible escape. But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop. He wished to improve that which was already perfect . . . and so he ruined all.

"How do you know that?"
"I followed you."
"I saw no one."
"That is what you may expect to see when I follow you."