There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.