Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.