It's Nervous Work. The State You Need

A Poet Or Novelist Will Invent Interruptions To Avoid Long Consecutive Days At The Ordained Page; And Of These The Most Pernicious Are Other Kinds Of Writing -- Articles, Lectures, Reviews, A Wide Correspondence.

Sometimes, Surely, Truth Is Closer To Imagination Or To Intelligence, To Love Than To Fact? To Be Accurate Is Not To Be Right.

Human Beings Need Unhappiness At Least As Much As They Need Happiness.

Did You Ever Notice How Easy It Is To Forgive A Person Any Number Of Faults For One Endearing Characteristic, For A Certain Style, Or Some Commitment To Life - While Someone With Many Good Qualities Is Insupportable For A Single Defect If It Happens To Be A Boring One?

Since The Moment Of The United Nations' Inception, Untold Energies Have Been Expended By Governments Not Only Toward The Exclusion Of Persons Of Principle And Distinction From The Organization's Leading Positions, But Toward The Installation Of Men Whose Character And Affiliations Would As Far As Possible Preclude Any Serious Challenge To Governmental Sovereignty.