Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.