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

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

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

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

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

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