A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.