V. S. Pritchett

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

The Canadian spirit is cautious observant and critical where the American is assertive.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.