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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
Gene Fowler H. Allen Smith's The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler (1977)
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.
When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, “As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.”
Her life, except for reading, had been dull—but it had not been in vain.
At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.
Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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