The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

sooner or later I do what I want to do.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

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