Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.