A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish.