Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.