Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.

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.