In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.