Who said “I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted…”?

“Remarks are not literature.”

“Literature is news that stays news.”

“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”

“A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.”

“A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.”

“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.”

“When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.”

“I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.”