People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

A dance to the music of time.

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Books do furnish a room.