For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

People fall in love, but have to climb out.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.