A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.