If he has a last thought, if there is time for a last thought, it will simply be, 'so that is what a last thought is like'

 

Yes, of course. Of course I am OK. But that is not the truth. He is not OK.

 

And anyway, one does not need to understand before one takes action, not unless one is excessively philosophic (Let me remind you, there is such a thing as acting on impulse, and I woud [...] urge it on you.

 

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths. If truth and lies are the same, then speech and silence may as well be the same.

 

And finally there is always silence. Silence can be full of meaning.

 

I used to have lots of second thoughts, I had second thoughts all the time, but now I abhor them.

 

You  know, there are those whom I call the ahthonic, the ones who stand with their feet planted in their native earth; and then there are the butterflies, creatures of light and air, temporary residents, alighting here, alighting there. You claim to be a butterfly, you want to be a butterfly; but then one day you have a fall, a calamitous fall, you came crashing down to earth; and when you pick ethereal being, you cannot even walk, you are nothing but a lamp of all too solid flesh

 

With little ingenuity, it seem to me [...]one can torture a lesson out of the most haphazard sequence of events.