It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.