What we think we are surely going to do, we don't do; and what we never intended to do, we may one day notice that we have done, and done, and done.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.