There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

You should employ your little grey cells.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.