If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

Too much information is rather deadening.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.