Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.