Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.