When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.