Nearly all novels are too long.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.