As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.