I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

The way to do some things is to do them.