“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.”

“Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.”

“Everything that matters in life flows through tubes.”

“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.”

“Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.”

“To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.”

“There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.”