I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.