To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Chess is one long regret.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.