It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.