A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

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.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.