One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.