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

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.