Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.