Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

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

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

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.

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