Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.