Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

Man has become our greatest hazard, and our only hope.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness that assail one. It is as though the words were not only indelible but that they spread out like dye in water and color everything around them. A strange and mystic business, writing.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.