Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

A writer survives in spite of his beliefs.