If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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.