The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.