I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.