The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
Western man is schizophrenic.
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
