Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.