I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

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

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

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

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!]