Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.