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

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.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.