I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.