Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.