Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.