The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.