Vitriolic is a needless and malign attack on something, excessive attack on something. It is a rather pointless thing to do.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

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.

How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.