Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

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

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.