The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

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

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

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.