 Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. |
| Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. |
| If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. |
| Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. |
| Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. |
| A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. |
| What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out. |
| The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. |
| The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. |
| 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 don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting. |
| There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. |
| My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. |
| Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. |
| The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. |
| I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. |
| After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. |
| There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. |
| True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. |
| He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. |
