Now that I have you thoroughly confused$$$ let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

When a nation's young men are conservative$$$ its funeral bell is already rung.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know$$$ because there is no hope of a cure.

By now they had mastered my own language$$$ but they still made simple mistakes$$$ like using 'hermeneutics$$$' when they meant 'heuristic'.

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence$$$ place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

The heart wants what it wants.

Living is messy.