Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.