There's no friends like the old friends.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously