The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it.

It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.

Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people.

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

Why is the rest of the world so overcrowded? Nobody lives in America! We're all squashed up on top of each other in London.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.