It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.