All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.