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 pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

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