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

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

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.

You have to be a product of the product.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

Books do furnish a room.