Thank God I'm an atheist.
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.