[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

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.

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.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

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