England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.
I always advise people never to give advice.
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
Sober or blotto, this is your motto: keep muddling through.
I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.
Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.