I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author