At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.