It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

The happy problem of our time - longer life.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.