Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .