Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.