As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.