It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.