No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

Custom makes monsters of us all.