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.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.