A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.