Buku itu seperti pria: pintar dan membosankan, berani dan pengecut, cantik dan jelek. Untuk setiap pemikiran berbunga akan ada halaman seperti anjing basah dan berkerumun, dan untuk setiap penerbangan melingkar ketukan pada sayap dan pengingat bahwa lilin tidak dapat menahan bulu-bulu itu terlalu kuat di dekat matahari.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Aku rasa hidupku seperti musik. Itu mungkin bukan musik yang bagus tapi tetap mempunyai bentuk dan irama.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
Kalau manusia berangsur menjadi tua, umumnya ia cendrung menetang perubahan, terutama perubahan ke arah perbaikan.
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.
I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.