Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.