There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

- Glenway Wescott

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

- Glenway Wescott

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

- Glenway Wescott

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

- Glenway Wescott

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work…

- Glenway Wescott

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

- Glenway Wescott

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

- Glenway Wescott