A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.