It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it. ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.