When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

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

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.