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

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.