The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.