We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

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.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

I don't read my reviews, I measure 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.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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.