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

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

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

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.