I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat
I can do the equivalent of 150 miles per hour and not get stopped. I could quite happily pursue people down the motorway in my helicopter.
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.
Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.
I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came.
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!
Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.
Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then, this is a hostile verdict and the international fame is warranted after all (given that Mann modeled his protagonist so closely on himself, it would be quite odd if he had intended Aschenbach's literary inferiority to be a fixed part of the interpretation).
I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
The best paid sex can still be really great and really intense, but, you know, without the emotional passion there, it's not going to be quite at the same level as the best unpaid sex.
I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.
