Giving full rein to one's cynicism as one goes along produces a normal outlet and maintains an emotional equilibrium.
It's an exhilarating play, and you come off tired, but thrilled.
The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
Love is blind, but when we close our eyes, we see with our hearts.
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility of the scene was impressive; not the slightest animation or vitality anywhere. It was like a mental image of our globe in its primitive state - a spectacle of Chaos. Around is ice and snow and the remnants of internal fires; above, a sinister sky; below the sombre sea; and over all, the silence of the sepulchre!