No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

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

I know how deeply slothful I am.

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

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.

Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

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