I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?