There Is Balance In Life,

The United Nations Emerged As A Temple Of Official Good Intentions, A Place Where Governments Might - Without Abating Their Transgressions - Go To Church; A Place Made Remote - By Agreed Untruth And Procedural Complexity, And By Tedium Itself - From The Risk Of Intense Public Involvement.

Children Seldom Have A Proper Sense Of Their Own Tragedy, Discounting And Keeping Hidden The True Horrors Of Their Short Lives, Humbly Imagining Real Calamity To Be Some Prestigious Drama Of The Grown-up World.

Marriage Is Like Democracy - It Doesn't Really Work, But It's All We've Been Able To Come Up With.

... One Doesn't Really Profit From Experience; One Merely Learns To Predict The Next Mistake.

Italians Are Never Punctual; The Café, The Convenient Place To Wait, Absolves Them From That. There Is No Question Of Hanging About, No Looking Lost And Unwanted Or Even Disreputable, As There Is In Hotel Lobbies Or The Foyers Of Restaurants. One Just Sits And Enjoys The Scene, And Waits.