In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

There are in life as many aspects as attitudes towards it, and aspects change with attitudes.

In the woods where snow is thick, bars of sunlight lay like pale fire.