Twelve
There is nothing like a sleepless couch for a clear vision of one’s environment.
Thirteen
The supreme muddlers of living are often people of quite remarkable intellectual faculty, with a quite remarkable gift of being wise for others.
Fourteen
Our leading advertisers have richly proved that the public will believe anything if they are told of it often enough.
Fifteen
Here’s a secret. No writer likes writing, at least not one in a hundred, and the exception, ten to one, is a howling mediocrity. That’s a fact. But all the same, they’re miserable if they don’t write.
Sixteen
The first and noblest aim of imaginative literature is not either to tickle or to stab the sensibilities, but to render a coherent view of life’s apparent incoherence, to give shape to the amorphous, to discover beauty which was hidden, to reveal essential truth.