Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

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.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.