I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.