Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.