You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.