It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down, saying, I never merited this grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days on the edge of rage. I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright.
[Annie Dillard]
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend — if you have one.”
[George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill]
“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second — if there is one.”
[Winston Churchill to George Bernard Shaw]