When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.

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.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.