Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.

There is a certain strong sense of inner conviction that strikes, with a pang as that of birth, through the very soul, and which is experienced but once or twice in a lifetime.

What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

We have a lot of sort of received historical ways of viewing portraiture. And I suppose in some way I'm sort of questioning that by toying with the rules of the game.

A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.