Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

noise is a pollution.

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.