The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

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

Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.