No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

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.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.