Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. - E. M. Forster

As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored"—"I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare—that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through and see those whom one loves come through.

If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right — that's no harm; fear is an emotion.