The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.