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

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?

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

there is no truly honest autobiography.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

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

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