“The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.”

“Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.”

“As old as the hills.”

“All men desire to be immortal.”

“How beautiful they are,
The lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills,
In the hollow hills.”

“How old is she now?" he asked.
"Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.”

“There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”

“The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.”

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write”

“There’s an old saying: The genius sees what happens, but the plodder sees what he expects to happen.”