“Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.”

“Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.”

“He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.”

“A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.”

“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”

“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can.”

“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.”