In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
After every war someone has to tidy up.
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
