Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.