One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things.

A girl's best friend is her mutter.

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.