But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.