Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can't stop competing; otherwise I'm fine.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.