The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Art is born of humiliation.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.