"The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask."

"One of the things I like about living in the country is that I can say anything I like and nobody hears me but the cows."

"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn."

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

"I don’t think you should write about anything you don’t know about."