Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.