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

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

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.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.