We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

We do choose how we shall live

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.