 Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. |
| The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. |
| Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. |
| Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. |
| The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon. |
| A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. |
| We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. |
| Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. |
| I didn't think; I experimented. |
| The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. |
| Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. |
| Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. |
| It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. |
| Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. |
| He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. |
| To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. |
| One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. |
| The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. |
| If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. |
| Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. |
