I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.