Several excuses are always less convincing than one. - Aldous Huxley

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

For the moment the interfering neurotic who, in waking hours, tries to run the show, was blessedly out of the way.

"...science has "explained" nothing; ...the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness...."