A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.

The way to do some things is to do them.

A fool and his money are soon married.