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

It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else.

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

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.