The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.
That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
Is not this the true romantic feeling – not to desire to escape life but to prevent life from escaping you.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Most of the time we think we’re sick it’s all in the mind.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments or publicity.
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
America – it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.