My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

I suppose drama can either take the place of a novel or can be very closely allied with it. It's quite customary to turn a successful novel into a film or a television series because you can dramatize and pictorialize a novel.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.

Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log on to the great pile. Then they stepped back, laughing with triumphant pleasure.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.