The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.