I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: Volume Five Of The Collected Stories (ed. Hachette UK, 2014) - ISBN: 9781473206700