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.

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.

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

Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.

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

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

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