To have and to want more that is life.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. . . . Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles