Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

How embarrassing to be human.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!