To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.