There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

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

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.