Alexander Theroux

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.