Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.