Nearly All Novels Are Too Long.

If Words Are To Change Their Meanings, As Assuredly They Are, Let Each User Of Language Make Such Changes As Please Himself, Put Up His Own Suggestions, And Let The Best Win.

Decades Have A Delusive Edge To Them. They Are Not, Of Course, Really Periods At All, Except As Any Other Ten Years May Be. But We, Looking At Them, Are Caught By The Different Name Each Bears, And Give Them Different Attributes, And Tie Labels On Them, As If They Were Flowers In A Border.

Parents Are Untamed, Excessive, Potentially Troublesome Creatures; Charming To Be With For A Time, In The Main They Must Lead Their Own Lives, Independent And Self-employed, With Companions Of Their Own Age And Selection.

It Is To The Eccentrics That The World Owes Most Of Its Knowledge.

Never Approach A Friend's Wife Or Girlfriend With Mischief As Your Goal... Unless She's Really Attractive.