Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.