Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.