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

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.