Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.