Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.