The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.