The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.
If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.
A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.
My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up , dust yourself off and move on.
I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.
Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist.
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassination when I saw his picture flashed on television.
Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.