The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.