If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize at one effort the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own - the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple - a few plain words - 'My Heart Laid Bare.' But - this little book must be true to its title.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made, not to …

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he t…

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does n…

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdote…