"The only thing worse than a bad book is a good book that you can't read."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the road to heaven is paved with them too."

"The artist is a man who has to fight with the world for the right to be himself."