Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.