Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.