I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

Water is the true wealth in a dry land.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.

You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.