"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."
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose."
"In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness."
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."
"She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up."
"I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit."