Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who….

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove..

He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do..

This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where….

Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening..

I marmaladed a slice of toast with something of a flourish and I don't suppose I have ever come much closer to saying 'Tra la la' as I did the lather….

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us..

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship..

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong….

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman..

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir..

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be….

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a ….

Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle o….

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all..

However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have….