Fidelity is for phonographs

Conquered people tend to be witty.

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.