To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

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

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time.

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

The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.