People perish. Books are immortal.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.