You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

The fear of death is for all of us everywhere, but for the great intelligence of the opium eater it is beautifully narrowed into the crux of drugs.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely grey hair.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.