Drawn games are sometimes more scintillating than any conclusive contest.
One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.
old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.
I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.
France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.
Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.