it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.