Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.