Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

Throughout the history of commercial life nobody has ever quite liked the commission man. His function is too vague, his presence always seems one too many, his profit looks too easy, and even when you admit that he has a necessary function, you feel that this function is, as it were, a personification of something that in an ethical society would not need to exist. If people could deal with one another honestly, they would not need agents.

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.