They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.