there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.