If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.