Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.