“All good novelists have bad memories.”
“No novelists any good except me. Sovietski -- yah! Nastikoff -- bah! I spit me of zem all. No novelists anywhere any good except me. P. G. Wodehouse and Tolstoi not bad. Not good, but not bad. No novelists any good except me.”
“Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.”
“Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.”
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”