Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

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.

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 gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

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.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.