Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.