[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Somebody was using the pencil.