One lives everything down in time.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

They were connected, one being, fused together. She belonged to him, and he to her.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

I live my life in gratitude.

Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.