Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.