What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal...
When a thought takes one's breath away a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
The stupendous task of human regeneration will be accomplished only by the...
If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
Give out what you most want to come back.
