Quotes

For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of

Who doesn’t like to be a center for concern? A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for

One case Boswell lost was a defense of a schoolmaster who had thrashed his pupils violently. During a London visit he brought it up

Tragically, the family experienced an appalling toll of mortality, which was not exceptional at the time. During the space of fourteen years Hester bore

It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I

Go to the Uffizi in Florence, the Louvre in Paris, and you are so crushed with the numbers, once the might of greatness, that

It is our practice now, at least in the large cities, to find from our psychiatric priesthood that our sins aren’t really sins at

This sounds as though I bemoan an older time, which is the preoccupation of the old, or cultivate an opposition to change, which is

I yield to no one in my distaste for the self-styled dog-lover, the kind who heaps up his frustrations and makes a dog carry