Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has no… - Robertson Davies

You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

Among the most graceful of birds, they have the ugliest faces; in the countenance of a seagull we observe all the bitter hatred and malignance which we usually associate with the faces of money-lenders or book censors.

Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.