I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.