I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

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

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

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.

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

Old men make wars that young men may die.

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.