That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.

You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.

Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.