When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.