When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.