Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.