What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.