The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

Truth has sharp teeth, so do not expect anything beautiful (to see) when it smiles to you.

Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Arms and laws do not flourish together.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

On the top of the batting list we have pinned our hopes on the Dilshan-Thirima nne combination as they have been putting the runs on the board whenever they have been entrusted with the opening slot.

Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.