... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

invaders always destroy libraries.

Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

Hope is a talent like any other.