I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

One must make one's own mistakes

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.