The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

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

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

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