There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.