“Love it or loathe it, you can never leave it or lose it.”

“No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.”

“It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.”

“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made”

“Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.”

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”

“You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.”