There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments.

She's useful to me, I'm useful to her. As long as that continues, Rowan Street is safe from an old-lady smack down of epic proportions.

Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.