I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.