Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. – Samuel Butler
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry…. Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work… – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, interview, The Paris Review, 1981