I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: 'I don't know.'

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly b…