Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.