The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I'm not much like myself any more.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!