Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.