Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. ... The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.