Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It …

To [Henry] James's intimates, however, these elaborate hesitancies, far from being an obstacle, were like a cobweb bridge flung from his mind to theirs, an inv…