The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

There was no Lo to behold.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.