I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.