An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

You can never know enough about your characters