All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story.
[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.
The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.
I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.
The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U. S. and the rest of the world.
I think we need a real plan, which is why I have offered a much more specific approach to securing the border, fixing the legal immigration system and addressing illegal immigration.