Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.

Cease, cows, life is short.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.