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.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

The better the actor, the more stupid he is.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.