Sublime

splashing in a bog of hesitation

discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late.

that the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.

Chekhov and Tolstoy,

seraphic

undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise

Experts are not difficult to find in Provence. All the bars I know are full of them, but the trick is to meet an expert whose knowledge is equal to his enthusiasm.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man’s discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.