Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]