Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
