Ladies with curly hair / Have time to spare.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

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

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

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

Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.