The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

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

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.