the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

You can't drown your troubles ... because troubles can swim.

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none.

The day will probably come when you can tell everything about a person from his dreams except his age and weight.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.