The measure of the creator is the amount of life he puts into his work

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted . . . . Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.