The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.