No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.