An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.

To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

They judge lest they be judged.

There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.