“If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problem
“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite
“Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land