Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none

I have no religion,’ says Borneau, ‘but I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.’ Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?