Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.

I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.

A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions.