Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.