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.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.