I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count o… - Dylan Thomas

Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.

"And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.