If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.