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.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

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

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.