We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

No adultery is bloodless.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

And in such bliss does devastation grow.

I gave you something you can never give back. Don't you mind?

No!You cant get this close to me and then push me away.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.