Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.