No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.