As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"

He who demands little gets it.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

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