"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
"There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil."
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Source: Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by Constant Reader”
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