Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals

He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.