He felt that such a life in which one could display such sarcasm and wit was after all to a certain degree worth living.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Yes, I am an author. I have written some beautiful love stories and witnessed some ugly relationships.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

Frankly speaking, I'm not afraid of death. I don't endeavour to avert its advent. But I don't want to be a witness of it.

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)”

“The director Jerry Damiano sat on trial, sat on the witness chair and pointed and said, 'yeah, that's the guy who had sex in my movie' and he was let go. Same with Linda Lovelace, 'That's the guy I had sex with in the movie DEEP THROAT', I was the defendant, they were witnesses, it makes no sense.”

The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.