Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. - William Somerset Maugham

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.