I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart. - James Thurber

"Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler."

"I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder."

He picked out this sentence in a New Yorker casual of mine: "After dinner, the men moved into the living room," and he wanted to know why I, or the editors, had put in the comma. I could explain that one all right. I wrote back that this particular comma was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.

Le coeur a ses raisons, Mrs. Bence, que la raison ne connait pas.