Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.

Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot.

Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.

I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

The United States is very important, too important in the civilizational process of the world. It's difficult to move, to make a difference in establishments like the one the US represents.

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.

Kids are anchors of mothers' life

How did people do this - swallow all their fears and trust someone else so implicitly with every imperfection and fear they had.

We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.