Spring makes everything look filthy.

The case against censoring anything is absolute: ... nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?