Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.