The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.
The unfed mind devours itself.
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
...you will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.