Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Of course I despise money when I haven't got any. It's the only dignified thing to do.

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