It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a tradesman - a tradesman in a good honest trade. You must learn the technical skills, and then, within that trade, you can apply your own creative ideas, but you must submit them to the discipline of form.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.