It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.