The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
Couples who come to understand one another often part.
My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.