#Luxury

"It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use."

"Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress."

"Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is."

"There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over."

"You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented."

"It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction."

"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

"Objectivity allows you the luxury of not taking sides"