Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.