I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.