When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.