He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Remember, people make you who you are.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

To dream costs nothing.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.