“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”

“Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.”

“Over the years, I have seen too many politicians ruin their careers because they could not accept defeat graciously.”

“What good poetry and good prose have in common is vitality of rhythm.”

“The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.”

“Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the seventeenth, poetry.”

“[…] France […] too had invested heavily in the Congress establishment and in the skewed advice of its so-called India experts.”

“You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.”

“Consider all that you've gone through, all that you've survived. And that the story of your life is done, your assignment complete. How many good things have you seen? How much pain and pleasure have you resisted? How many honors have you declined? How many unkind people have you been kind to?”

“Too many people’s careers are ruined by praise instead of propelled by criticism.”