But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.