Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

If one can't be happy, one must be amused.

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.