It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.