“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Hard writing makes easy reading.”

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”

“Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health...”

“Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he...”