There’s nothing like mixing with woman to bring ou — Thornton Wilder

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous—and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight—and that, also, can shatter the… Read more → Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), closing words The dead don’t stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the pleasures they had . . . and the things they suffere… Read more →

When he was asked ‘What is a friend?’ he said ‘One soul inhabiting two bodies.’ Diogenes Laertius lives of Philosophers bk. 5, sect. 20 Aristóteles Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3 George Orwell If they [the Republicans] will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. speech during 1952 Presidential campaign; in J. B. Martin Adlai Stevenson and Illinois (1976) ch. 8 Adlai Stevenson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein