They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously