The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.