As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The moment you're born you're done for.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.