Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.