The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.