Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.