But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain