As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker wou... - P.G. Wodehouse
"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."
"As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight."
"[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975)"
"There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
"One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation."
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."