It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

We can never cease to be ourselves.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Sometimes it takes all my resolution and power of self-control to refrain from butting my head against the wall. I want to howl and foam at the mouth but I daren't.