What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.