I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.