“The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.”
“... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”
“To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.”
“They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.”
“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
“I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.”