Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.