No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

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

The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.