They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

I've never been a teacher in my life.

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.