And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.