Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

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 . . .

Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.