This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.

The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.

The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.