What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.