In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.