He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.