There are no signposts in the sea.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.