"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."

"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."

"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."

"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."

"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

"Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my lifetime!"

"Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded."

"Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed."