Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. W. S.

There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved. W.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. W.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. W.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. W.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. W.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.