Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Western man is schizophrenic.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

I'm in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn't have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.