My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.