I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.Audrey Hepburn
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.Plato
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.Ernest Hemingway
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'.Howard Jacobson
