In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent?

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

It was a silver cow. But when I say 'cow', don't go running away with the idea of some decent, self-respecting cudster such as you may observe loading grass into itself in the nearest meadow. This was a sinister, leering, Underworld sort of animal, the kind that would spit out of the side of its mouth for twopence.