Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.