I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.