When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.