You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.' What do you mean?' she smiled. Well, love isn't a good sailor and it languishes on a sea voyage. You'll be surprised when you have the Atlantic between you and Larry to find how slight the pang is that before you sailed seemed intolerable.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.