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

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

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