Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest-that would be like a blind man willing to see.

But sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them-their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

He saw she was lying but it was a brave lie. They talked from their hearts-with the half truths and evasions peculiar to that organ, which has never been famed as an instrument of precision.

At three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work-and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

It was like the good gone times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of popular songs.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.