Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.