When Starting To Think About Any Novel,

Misprize Common Sense At Your Peril Is My Motto.

With Some Exceptions In Science Fiction And Other Genres I Have Small Difficulty In Avoiding Anything That Could Be Called American Literature. I Feel It Is Unnatural, Not I Think Entirely Because It Uses A Language That Is Not Mine, However Closely Akin To My Own.

He Who Truly Believes He Has A Hangover Has No Hangover.

How Wrong People Always Were When They Said: 'it's Better To Know The Worst Than Go On Not Knowing Either Way.' No; They Had It Exactly The Wrong Way Round. Tell Me The Truth, Doctor, I'd Sooner Know. But Only If The Truth Is What I Want To Hear.

I Was Never An Angry Young Man. I Am Angry Only When I Hit My Thumb With A Hammer.