Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.