The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

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

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.