Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Quick, name some towns in New Jersey

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.