It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.