It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.