If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

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

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.