In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.