Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.