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

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

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

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?