To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.