my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

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!]

[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.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

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

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.