"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."
"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
"Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?"
"By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream"
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."
"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."