A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.

I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.