"Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp."

-- Seneca the Younger

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “Vertigo”, p.62, New Directions Publishing
“It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.”
“There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.”
“Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.”
“I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.”
“Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the visible realm.”
“A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.”
“It isnâ€™t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”

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