In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.