The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.
Pain is the biggest power of love.
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read
The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.