India! What mysteries does the very mention of its name not bring to mind?

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man’s taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

Even nowadays a man can’t step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a ’builder-upper.

Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?

I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in “The Wild Duck,” and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.