I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

I am completely half afraid to think.