One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.