The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.