I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.