The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.