for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.