Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

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

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.