There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.