The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Melly is the only woman friend I ever had, ” she thought forlornly, “the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She’s like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.

In my eyes, all readers are my father and mother. You may see a boy, with all of his body and heart bared, resplendently smiling to mom, and that boy is me.

Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Allen Iverson is a ball hog. You will never win a championship with him on your team.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

He stood beside a cottage lone And listened to a lute, One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, And the nightingale was mute.