A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.