To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

The rottenness comes from within.

the science of tomorrow is the supernatural of today.

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.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

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.