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

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.

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.

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

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

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

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.