Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

I'm always looking for insights into the real Doris Day because I'm stuck with this infatuation and need to explain it to myself.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.