The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.