"The very first thing which a man has to do, in order to learn how to do a thing, is to learn how to unlearn it."

"I was born with a reading habit, and it's a good thing, because it's the only habit I've ever had that hasn't cost me money."

"The human being is a machine. An automatic machine. It does not reason. It merely acts upon the impulse of the moment."

"The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell togethe…"

"I wish to make a doctrine that I shall call the Law of Periodical Repetition. It will be this: The human race is a repetition, a repetition, a repetition."