You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.