A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.