If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.