I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.