We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

I like coffee exceedingly.

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.