Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.