The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.