"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."

"I have a great many things to say, but I don't know how to say them."

"It is a most extraordinary thing that the human race is so fond of being humbugged."

"We are all a little mad. Those of us who are able to laugh at our own madness are sane enough."

"I have been in situations where I could not tell the truth without doing harm, and I have therefore told lies."