My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.