It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

But immobilizing darts don't bring on sleep gently, like a good cup of tea; they knock out like a bottle of hard liquor straight up.

Roetown, of mixed economy, neither boom nor bust, just ordinary times — that is, hard — had a slightly run-down aspect, I suppose. But in a pleasing way, like a man you love who has buttoned his coat up wrong.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

The presence of God is the finest of rewards.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.