Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.