Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

Remarks are not literature.