People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.

Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.

I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.