Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.