The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.