How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.