We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.