Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

The pessimism of the creative person is not decadence but a mighty passion for the redemption of man.