Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.