I do not know what I think until I write it.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.