Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

I hate babies. They're so human.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.