I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

Be obscure clearly.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.