Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.