Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.