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

Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

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

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.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.