“Life is hard - if you think it's hard.”

“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”

“It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.”

“April. Spring was on the land like an itch. The whole countryside seemed to be scratching itself awake—lazily, luxuriously, though occasionally scratching so hard its nails hit bone, that old cold calcium that lies beneath our tingles.”

“Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.”

“Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living in Paris in the thirties.”

“Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.”