A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.