Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

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.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.