All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life--the first twenty years of it--had about them something semi-fictitious.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.

nothing is more restful than conformity.