Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.