Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.