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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

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