An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it
In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.
Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.