Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.