Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.