Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?