Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

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

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

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

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

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.

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.