I had refused Emerson's well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.