every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

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