Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.