If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.

All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.