I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.