» I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
» Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
» When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
» Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.
» Remote and ineffectual don.
» Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
» From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
» When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
» It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
» I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.