"Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession"
"It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ"
"Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say"
"For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?"
"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us"
"'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"
"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about"
"Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel"
"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead"
"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him"
