You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

I have no doubt that they'll tell you a lot of kind things about me when my back is turned. They may not have been behind the door when God passed out the pretty faces, but Heaven only knows where they were when He divided up the gratitude.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, 'You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.