Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

I'm not senile, " I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

It's our contention that equity may be in the money, depending on where the liabilities lie.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do.

Annette had kissed me. Who would’a thunk it?

Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.

I'd rather be called a boy and play with paper airplanes than be called a man and play with a girl's heart.