You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

happy people have got something to give to the world.