Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
With method and logic one can accomplish anything.
I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can’t they, unless they kill you while they’re trying to cure you.
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.
The supernatural is only the natural of which the laws are not yet understood.
There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
Hate doesn’t last. Love does.
And, of course, afterwards – one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before – we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!
I’ve always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.
The truth often does sound unconvincing.
There are many things that are unbelievable. Especially before breakfast, is it not? That is what one of your classics says. Six impossible things before breakfast.
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.
When a man is really in love he can’t help looking like a sheep.
There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.
Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.