Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?
You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.