Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.
A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.