Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
“I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.”
“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”