Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

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

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

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

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.