One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

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.

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

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

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