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

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

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

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

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.