The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.
She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
I miss him so badly it hurts.
You love me. Real or not real?
World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.
Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
The only paradise is paradise lost.
We become moral when we are unhappy.
The idea of England in decline is very attractive.
The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.
We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
I am a free man.
To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.
