We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.