A library should be like a pair of open arms.

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.