“ The images of things are not the things in themselves. ”
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
~ E.l. Doctorow
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions of other men.