I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word -- per piece or perhaps.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books