All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.