I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: "I do not know..."

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

Hate doesn't last. Love does.