A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.