Our times are still not safe and sane enough for faces to show ordinary sorrow. - Wisława Szymborska

He feels like a handle broken off a jug, but the jug doesn't know it's broken and keeps going to the well.

They aren't obliged to vanish when we're gone. They don't have to be seen while sailing on.

"I have no idea who dreamed up the idiotic notion that summer vacations require "light" reading. Just the opposite, since the "light" books get read — if any reading's done at all — before bedtime, after the office work and house work, when we lack the concentration required for heavier fare."