If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable