“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.”
“I am clever enough to know that I am clever.”
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”
“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”