Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.