The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and ch….

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange….

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg..

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship..

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely..

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution..

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about..

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the oth….

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night..

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another..

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,….

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the int….

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances..

A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in….

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and pea….

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout..

No two persons ever read the same book..

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods..

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the f….

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice..

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes..