Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.