We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.