There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!

There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.