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

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.