As We Live Our Precarious Lives On

Language Is A Machine For Making Falsehoods.

We Are Such Inward Secret Creatures, That Inwardness Is The Most Amazing Thing About Us, Even More Amazing Than Our Reason.

Every Persisting Marriage Is Based On Fear', Said Peregrine. 'fear Is Fundamental, You Dig Down In Human Nature And What's At The Bottom? Mean Spiteful Cruel Self-regarding Fear, Whether It Makes You To Put The Foot In It Or Whether It Makes You To Cower.

We Are All The Judges And The Judged, Victims Of The Casual Malice And Fantasy Of Others, And Ready Sources Of Fantasy And Malice In Our Turn. And If We Are Sometimes Accused Of Sins Of Which We Are Innocent, Are There Not Also Other Sins Of Which We Are Guilty And Of Which The World Knows Nothing?

Not To Have Been Born Is Undoubtedly Best, But Sound Sleep Is Second Best.