Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

The best writing is rewriting.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.