However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance-so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

Cynicism is cheap-you can buy it at any Monoprix store-it's built into all poor-quality goods.

I have often noticed that a bribe...has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe on…

What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can f…

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

She cast her eyes about her, longing for the earth to open up. Why not end it all? What was holding her back? She was free to act. And she moved forward. 'Do i…

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.