Useless as a pulled tooth.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.