The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

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

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.