The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
The crown of literature is poetry.