The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.