There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

We don't simply read books. We become them.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.