Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.