If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.
The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.
A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.
You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls.
People are brutal. Just to each other.
The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.
I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.