Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors..

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspap….

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy..

Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that in….

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more ela….

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language..

The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executan….

... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate..

I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being,….

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the ….

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but comprom….

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad theref….

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved..

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinnin….

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him..

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have..

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse..

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin..

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression..

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation..