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

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

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

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.

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

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be