One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

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

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

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.

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.