The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

I follow three rules: find the opportunity to love and love endlessly, be kind to all and rude to none, and serve others with care and know that service is joy.

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

The wildest colts make the best horses.

If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

If we studied human beings which can include human genes, human blood samples, and human behavior, then you can leave the animals out of the labs and you can leave them off your plate.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.