No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

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

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

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

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.