In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

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

The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.