Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.