There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Western man is schizophrenic.
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.