There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

There is one in the world who feels for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; there is one to whom reflected joy is better than that which comes direct; there is one who rejoices in another’s honor, more than in any which is one’s own.

The world would not be in such a snarl,/ had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure