Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.