TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.