Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.