Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

The older lives like not to be stood in rows or at right angles.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.