"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin?
For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."
Thomas Campbell
"Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization." Henri Bergson
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." Albert Camus
"Yes, I suppose some editors are failed writers—but so are most writers." Thomas Stearns Eliot
"We live in stirring times—tea-stirring times." Christopher Isherwood
"She was every bandleader's dream, a vocalist who had natural talent, a keen regard for the lyrics, and an attractive appearance." Les Brown
"Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to while away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used—by priests, by bards, by medicine men—as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities."
"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."