The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.