Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

It's easier to be old than young. You make just as many blunders, but you've become much more adept at not recognizing them.