A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.