Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.