Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Styles in wit change so.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.