The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

the old fellow seemed to spot deceit as if it reeked like a goat.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.