Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.