What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.