One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.

To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.

I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself to get expelled. It's far too public.

We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

Being old is such a treat!

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.