You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. - William Somerset Maugham

Why do you read then?'

Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I've got out of the book all that's any use to me and I can't get anything more if I read it a dozen times. ...

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.