The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

The makers of the short story have rarely been good novelists.