You can never know enough about your characters

Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

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

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.