A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

To make one, there must be two.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.