Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.