A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.