I've never let my school interfere with my education.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.