It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.