Time is a waste of money.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.