There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.