Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.