To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.