The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Love has nothing to do with good reasons.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

All intimacies are based on differences.