Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. - Tennessee Williams

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

The tables have turned, yes, the tables have turned with a vengeance! You've come around to my old way of thinking and I to yours like two people exchanging a call on each other at the same time, and each one finding the other one gone out, the door locked against him and no one to answer the bell!

I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less — freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns…