I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

The saved moment is the true art of love.

don't try to be best, try to give your best.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

No book is written

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

it is only when no one remembers that you are truly lost. That is the true death.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.