We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel.

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.