We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.