Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.