The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.