Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

One lives everything down in time.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.

Can trust be trusted?

Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine.

I woke to the sound of rain.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't [be in].