The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

I am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.