Prudence says one thing, desire says another, and I'd rather go with desire any time.

My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself... They are satiated by everything, hungry for nothing. They are what I wanted to be; they are what I worked for them to be: and now I see them, I hate them.

Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.