In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain... Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and... Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value--certainly no large value.

Maturity...is fatal to so many enchantments.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of critics.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.