The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.