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.

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.