Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.

There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.

Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!

Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.