Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an Tlite which knows the law in some field or other,...

”God is Love,” we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at...

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are...

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is...

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.