What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

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

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.