‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’ — P.G. Wodehouse

His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...