When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.

Space has a way of looking. It seems like it has a presence of vision. When you come into it, it is there, it’s been waiting for you.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

To speak for others is to first silence those in whose name we speak

The purpose of art is mystery.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.