My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.