Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

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